His main area of research
is Internet governance, especially as its relates to globalization. He also
studies community media, especially public, educational, and governmental (PEG)
access television, and political organizing using the Internet. Other research
interests include US technology policy for large technical systems and theories
of the social construction of technology.

Member, Atlanta Telecommunications
Policy Advisory Committee (TelePAC)
(2004-2005). TelePAC was
a policy advisory committee to the City of Atlanta on matters of telecommunications.
Service included chairing the sub-committee on Public, Educational, and Governmental
(PEG) access television.

Chairman of the Board/Director,
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
(1995-2003). While
at CPSR, initiated and ran the Civil Society Democracy Project (CivSoc), which
was a joint project of IP3 and CPSR
that worked on issues in Internet governance relating to the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
The project was funded by the Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation (OSI)
in partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).
The archives of CivSoc's works, including the The
Cyber-Federalist newsletter are here.

Expert Testimony, Social
Security Administration Hearings on Privacy (Atlanta, June 1997).
Following a public outcry after it made tax records accessible over the Internet,
the Social Security Administration held public hearings to learn how to better
ensure taxpayer privacy.

Expert Witness, ACLU
of Georgia v. Miller (Atlanta, January 1997).
Gave testimony in federal court on the implications of a Georgia law forbidding
anonymous communications on computer networks. The law was subsequently
overturned.